Aras Baskauskas
| Aras Baskauskas | |
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| Born |
Aras Vydunas Baskauskas September 26, 1981 Venice, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Irvine (B.A., MBA) |
| Television |
Survivor: Panama (winner) Survivor: Blood vs. Water |
| Spouse(s) | Christy Petersen |
| Children | 1 (River Juozas Baskauskas) |
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Aras Vydunas Baskauskas (Lithuanian: Baškauskas) (born September 26, 1981) is a reality TV personality who won Survivor: Panama and competed in Survivor: Blood vs. Water.
Baskauskas is the grandson of the prominent actor Macdonald Carey (1913-1994). He played collegiate NCAA Division I basketball at UC Irvine from 2000 to 2004, where he was honored as a Big West Conference scholar athlete for three seasons. He received his B.A. in philosophy in 2002, and his MBA in 2004. After college, he had the chance to sign a contract with a professional basketball club Alita in Lithuania, but he decided to go to South Africa instead to learn more about yoga.
In Survivor: Panama — Exile Island, Baskauskas was originally part of the Viveros tribe of younger men, until a tribal swap early on had him become a member of the Casaya tribe, where he formed an early alliance with Shane Powers, Courtney Marit and Danielle DiLorenzo. When the tribes merged, the former Casaya tribe members (himself, Powers, Marit, DiLorenzo, Bruce Kenagai, and Cirie Fields) had a number advantage against the four former La Mina tribe members. The former Casaya members proceeded to vote out the entire former La Mina tribe, excluding Terry Deitz, who won nearly all of the immunity challenges. When the alliance had nowhere left to turn but on each other, Baskauskas and Powers targeted DiLorenzo, but she, Marit, and Deitz wanted to vote out Baskauskas. Not happy with any of these options, Fields brewed a plan of her own, and together with Baskauskas and DiLorenzo, voted out Marit, followed by Powers. At the final four challenge, Baskauskas won immunity. Dietz, due to the widely known fact that he possessed the hidden immunity idol, was also safe. This created a 2–2 tie between DiLorenzo and Fields, who competed in a fire-building challenge to determine their fate. DiLorenzo won the challenge and Fields was eliminated.
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